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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel Contral 236.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2418, 1926

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When you're thinking things 'ain't what they was:

What a rotten time everyone has, All the work that one loathes -No money-Na clothes,

Fill the kettle and turn on the GAS.

Full particulars of Gas Fittings for every purpose can be obtained at the SHOWROOM OF THE

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16a, Des Voeux Road Central,

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NEWS BY MAIL.

LAST OF ULSTER SPECIAL POLICE

DISBANDED.

HORRORS OF A BULL-FIGHT.

BRITISH - VISITORS LEAVE IN" DISGUST..

A CHALLENGE.

One thousand entries were received from local school children for the Ber

SAN SEBASTIAN (Spain), July Sud. mondsey Settlement annual flower show.

An invitation amounting to a challenge has been issued on behalf of the mata- The Thakur Sahib. of Gondal, a first-dors of Spain to the famous international class State of Kathiawar, has been ad-motor-car racing drivers, English, French, vanced to the hereditary title of and German, now in San Sebastian, to Maharajah..

enter the ball ring at private bulk- fight.

More than 1,000 tourist passengers from the United States Lines' faship Leviathan arrived at Waterloo one day last month...

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Bootle magistrates refused an applica- tion to allow a Welsh miners' choir to sing at a Sunday concert organised by the local Labour Party.

Twenty-one Finnish Communists have just been sentenced by the High Court to various terms of penal servitude for attempted high treason.

James Strange, a Wigan butcher, who was fined £20 at Leigh (Lancs.) for cruelty to six calves, was said to have left the unfed for 29 hours. -

M. Sacha Guitry the French actor, sent to the French Hospital half the sum of 50 guineas. he received for his recent broadcast. The other half he has given. to St. Dunstan's.

The last platoon of the Ulster Special Constabulary, which was stationed at Rosscor, near Belleek Co. Fermanagh. for the protection of the pontoon bridge at Rosscor, has been disbanded.

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Major H. O. D. Segrave, the British driver, has been asked to take the part of a chalo-one of the fighters who plays the bull before the kill with a purple and vellow cloak. He has replied that he will do so if one of the chief toreadors wil accompany him twice round the motor road track in his English, racing car. No man of the bull-fighting company has so far consented to this.

The dual challenge has attracted great interest, following an incident which oc curred at a public bull-fight. English people marched out of the bull ring in contest as a protest the middle of against the utter cruelty of bull-fighting. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

AUGUST 23xD, 1936.

..$1,100 buy. &.

Songsong Bank

Dos London.........£126 nom ..4201 buy. Chartered Bank Mercantile Bank, A. & B....£90 nom.

U......213) nom,

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buy.

F63***

*THOU FAX

Sous sel.. Sl. nom.

1. 145 not 5238 sal

Do., 'P. & Û, Bank The Oslo journal Morgenbladet learns East Asia Banx on high authority that the Norwegian Canton Ingaraace........ Crown Prince, who has just completed | China Underwriters ................. his studies at Oxford, will procted to an North China insurance American university next autumn.

Union Losar ace" Yangiato insurance .....................850 bay. Pleading Guilty" at the Birming ham Assizes to one of five charges of Chins Fice Lusurance. 200 buy, Hongkong Fire Laurancs. $820 nom. fraudulent conversion, Reuben Nelson Douglased.............$25 bay. Jones, 33, a solicitor, was sentenced to,. & M. Blamboat...$26) nom. eight months' imprisonment in the second Hongkong Tngs..... $1 nom division.

Indo-Chinas (Fref.)$30 noin.

Shell

(Dot.), Transporta ...... Star Fanes................. Waterboats..... China Bingar.... Malabon Sugars Bengueta....

Kaisa Mining As.............. Langissa (combined Do. (single Shanghai kixplorations, Shaugas. Locks Raabe

lronoh Mines

It is understood that a member of the Italian Royal Family is leaving Italy soon for Addis Abbaba to return the visit of the Regent of Abyssinia, Ras Tafari, to Italy in the summer of 1824.

At the All-German Atheltic Tourna- ment, concluded in Cologne there were contests in almost every form of sport, from yacht racing to ju-jitsu, and the festival attracted thousands of visitors. Geneva has presented Princess Juliana of Holland with the freedom of the city as a token of gratitude for the assistance

Umi Caspians..... given by Holland at the time of its fight & K. Wharis... for political and religious independence. HK. & W. Docks. When a number of Orangemen were as- Hongkowa ARRA sembled at the Orange Hall in Belleville, New angioerage. Ontario, preparatory to the July 12th Bhangra .... celebration, the hall was struck by light-H... Hotel ning," and two Orangemen were killed and wine others injured-

The City Corporation are about to erect a large block of tenement buildings on a site adjoining Shepherdess-walk and Wenlock Road, City Road, to provide accommodation for persons displaced in the City in insanitary areas.

Deptford Borough Council are making representations to the London County Council asking that the numbering of; houses in all roads should be continuous, and all subsidiary names, such 28 "terraces" and "cottages," abolished.

Alderman Sir Rowland Blades, 3I.P., has been elected Master of the Stationers' Company: Leiut.-Colonel K, S. Laurie, Prime Warden of the Saddlers' Com pany; and Mr. H. E. Griffith, Master of the Bowyers' Company.

A: Dorchester Town Council it was de- cided to remove from their position at the western entrance to the town the two German howitzers presented to Dor- chester as war trophies. The Mayor said that in their present position they were

eyesore."

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It is announced from Cyrenaica that an Italian force escorting lorries travers ing the hill country east of Benghazi was attacked by brigands. Twenty-two sol diers, five civilians, and one friendly Arab were killed.

Punitive measures

have been taken.

Captain Arrachart and his brother,

Hongkong Lands Hongkong Realiva (Lp.) HA Territorials

Derslopments. Humphreys Estates. Prime'♥ Building......... Kural Lands Bwo Cations Orient *********

Do.

. nom.

xЯi- nom.

83/- nom.

..$87 sel

..$154 nom.

4 Bel $96 cm. $1) nom.. 40j- nomi

Th. 3 buy.

Tis, 12 nom.

Tis. 4.40 buy., 5 sel.

Tia, 70

..$1Í DOM.

74. bay.

.8/. nom. $119 sel. $551 bay. Tie 174 buy The. 6 buy. Tis. 110 bay. $10 ony, 104, sal. Jou buy.

7 buy 8 Bel

10 sta, ael. " $13.60 cel

buy.

12 90 bay. Tla. 2 bay. (old). Ta 52 bay. (now)......Tls. 27 bay:"

„Tia. 10 nom. „124 buy,, 241 sol ..$154 nom.

..$7,bu nom.

„10/8 buy.. 12/- #el.

3 se!

Shangaal Cotton Ohias Buses Hongkong Tramways Peak Trams (old)

Do. (New)....... Singapore Tractions .... Thá Amusements

..$10h buy., 11 sa. Osatan Icas.....37) Bom. Cements (scmbined) al

10431, (old

(20).........$1 I. . China Lights (combined)...... buy.

.10. (id)...$13 noin. Do. (new) .....şli nani. Chins Providants (Old).........$5,50 bay. Constructions -sze . nom. Dairy farmin $161 sei Der & Way ******* Hongkong Electrica

Macas Electrics H.K. Ropes (combined)

Do.

(old) Jo. (now). Crawfords.... Lane Mackintosh...................................... Bincares .................... United Asbestos .....

.46 vei.

80 sel.

$10 sel

.35 wel,

.... nom.

419) naca

...$ll now.

....$20 nau

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who are returning from Basra to Paris-Wa. Powells...$64 num.

having made the outward journey in a non-stop fight-were compelled to land at Harta, some 60 miles to the south of- Budapest, owing to magneto trouble. Their aeroplane smashed in a ditch.

On Sunday, July 11th, over 2,000 Lon

the don omnibus men assembled on Victoria Embankment at 9.48 am for a march to the Church of St. Clement Danes, where a service was held at 11 a.m. Lord Ashficid read the lesson. A wreath was placed at the Centoaph en route to the church.

At a meeting of the Monmouthshire County Council, it was decided, by 42 votes to 8, to support the standing joint committee's demand for the resignation of Mr. Victor Bosanquet, Chief Constable of Monmouthshire, who prosecuted two. leaders of an unemployed demonstration two months ago.

At Bournemouth, Henry George Mut chings, aged 67, secretary of two courts of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and former High Chief Ranger of the Order, was sentenced to six months' imprison- ment on charges of stealing and embezz ling sume amounting to £750, the pro- perty of Courts Wilberforec. and Robin Hood.

A strike of longshoremen and crews of river steamers on the Upper Magdalens River, in Colombia, has come to an end, concessions having been made by both sides. It is estimated that it will take months to relieve the goods congestion in the coast and river ports resulting from the strike and the extremely "dry

geason.

Western Ontario has been swept by a cyclone of greater severity than any pre- viously recorded. The cyclone passed over a section of the country 25 miles (Continued on next columm.)

buy-buyers;

sel-sellers; eales -nom-nominal

EXCHANGE RATES. (BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon

RUGBY, August 21st.

3001.

......... 1781

12. 112

20.41

18.08

34.42

182)

2.33/84

Buenos Aires

45.7/18

Shanghai

2/91

1/114 4.85.13/16 -25-157 1482

18.161

22.15

164.

Yokohama New York Geneva... Milan Stockholm Oslo Prague Madrid

Rio

Bombay

Hongkong Silver (spot) Silver (forward)

31.39 7.19/32

1/6.31/32

2/12

28.11/18.

wide, uprooting orchards, destroying tim ber, and blowing many barns to pieces, the wreckage being scattered for miles The chief destruction was in Lambton, Middlesex, sad Huron countries.

The Raja of Sarguja, in the Central Provinces, while hunting a cattle-killing tiger, was informed that the creature bad, attacked one of his foresters in another part of the Etate. The beat was aban- doned, and while on his way in a motor- car to the district where the tiger was last reported, the "Raja met the beast in the road and shot it from his car.

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CAFE

RESTAURANT

PARISIEN.

"The Rendezvous of the Elite."

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME:

TUESDAY.

MUSICAL TIFFIN-12 p.m. $1.25 per cOTET.

BPECIAL (Cassoulet Toulousain).

TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT--8-12 midnight. 31,50 per cover.

WEDNESDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. $1.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Guoguis au Gratin).

TEA DANSANT-6-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT-8-12 midnight. $1.50 per cover.

THURSDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN 13 p.m. $1.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Chicken Pie).

'TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT--12 midnight. $1.50 per cover.

FRIDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p. $1.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Choucroute Garnie),

TEA DANSANT--5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight. $1.50 per cover.

SATURDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.

SPECIAL-Bouillabaisse). TEA DANBANT-5-7 p.

$1.25 per cover.

CARNIVAL NIGHT

SPECIAL DINNER-33 PER COVER. NOVELTIES.

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DOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG.

BWEEKLY PRESS; July to December

1925

With Imaxx, Price-$7.50,

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